Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-17 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Erhm... In French, it becomes nul (if it's a man (or a masculine thing (like a problem))) and nulle (if it's a woman (or a feminine thing (like a solution))). But then, my wife tells me that even though men can be 'nul', women can't be considered 'nulle'. :-) Do I dear saying that's just my 0.0

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-16 Thread James F. Kubecki
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Mike Stok wrote: >Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char > >000 0 00NUL '\0' 100 6440@ >001 1 01SOH101 6541A

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-16 Thread Mike Stok
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > well, I guess some people would say those guys writing the libc's don't know their >basics :=) > > For myself I thought like you : nil and NULL. Never seen NUL anywhere .. > But I am ignorant, so .. Try man ascii: [...] The followi

RE: perl guru help please

2000-03-16 Thread Juha Saarinen
> %-> well, I guess some people would say those guys writing the %-> libc's don't know their basics :=) %-> %-> For myself I thought like you : nil and NULL. Never seen NUL %-> anywhere .. %-> But I am ignorant, so .. [root@vimfuego /dev]# ls nu* crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 May

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-16 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
Dave Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From: Bill Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > > > > > "J. Scott Kasten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Please be more specific. Do you mean the ASCII character for > > > > the number zero,

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-16 Thread Dave Reed
> From: Bill Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > > > "J. Scott Kasten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Please be more specific. Do you mean the ASCII character for > > > the number zero, or do you mean a null character \0? > > > > > > > OH O

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-16 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > "J. Scott Kasten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Please be more specific. Do you mean the ASCII character for > > the number zero, or do you mean a null character \0? > > > > OH OH, man, be careful : there is a guy out there ready to get a s

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-16 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
"J. Scott Kasten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please be more specific. Do you mean the ASCII character for > the number zero, or do you mean a null character \0? > OH OH, man, be careful : there is a guy out there ready to get a stroke if you are using null -with-2-l's instead of NUL with ON

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-16 Thread J. Scott Kasten
Please be more specific. Do you mean the ASCII character for the number zero, or do you mean a null character \0? Also, do you want the file rewritten, or are you just parsing stdin to stdout? On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:04:27PM +1100, Dan Horth wrote: > hiya - can someone tell me a neat perl on

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:17:11PM +1100, Dan Horth wrote: | that was a zero - they all are now! all 2Gb of text file worth of | them - thanks... just creating a large file full of 0's to test the | dat compression with. thanks loads... :) | | gotta love perl! really want to learn it properly s

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-15 Thread Dan Horth
that was a zero - they all are now! all 2Gb of text file worth of them - thanks... just creating a large file full of 0's to test the dat compression with. thanks loads... :) gotta love perl! really want to learn it properly soon ... thanks again. dan. At 22:09 -0700 15/3/00, Philippe Moutarl

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-15 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
Charles Galpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > no need to use perl, use vi! > > haha, I can barely look functional in vi > > perl -pi -e 's/\n/0/g' file > > that's a zero right? > Yes, I was also wondering : I hope that is an ASCII zero he wants to put there ... not the NULL character. P

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-15 Thread Charles Galpin
no need to use perl, use vi! haha, I can barely look functional in vi perl -pi -e 's/\n/0/g' file that's a zero right? charles On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Dan Horth wrote: > hiya - can someone tell me a neat perl one liner to replace a carriage return > \n with a 0 in a file > > tia - dan. -- T

perl guru help please

2000-03-15 Thread Dan Horth
hiya - can someone tell me a neat perl one liner to replace a carriage return \n with a 0 in a file tia - dan. - Nitro - 3D Visualisation, Graphics & Animation Ph (+61 2) 9810 5177 - Fx (+61 2) 9810 0199 http://www.nitro.com.au/ -- To unsubs